Posters, Town Halls, Angry Opinion Articles: Dissent and Disagreement at Yale-NUS
Yale-NUS has been through a lot in the last six years. Jia Qi summarizes.
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Author: Yip Jia Qi
The Yale-NUS Premium
Yale-NUS graduates earn more than their NUS and NTU counterparts with similar degrees. But they also pay more for tuition, so how does the math stack up? Jia Qi crunches some numbers to find out.
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Behind Those Doors
story | Mathias Ooi, Staff Writer photo | Peh Yi Lin, Staff Photographer This past recess week, as many of us rushed to leave for home or vacation, eight students quietly moved into two empty suites on the fourth floor of Saga Tower A. With a motley of equipment in hand—paint brushes, canvases, and […]
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Public Spaces Taskforce Seeks Student Feedback
story | Yip Jia Qi, Editor, Jiang Haolie, Contributing Writer photo | Yip Jia Qi Last semester, the student-run forum “Occupy: The Politics of Youth and Space” sparked a debate between students and administration over the use of public space. In The Octant’s article about the controversy, a number of issues surfaced, including a […]
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Concerns Over Changes in the Films Act
story | Yip Jia Qi, Editor and Toh Wei Yang, Guest Writer photo | Yip Jia Qi While Yale-NUS College students went home for the December break, a rather short one-month public consultation was held on changes to Singapore’s Films Act. This Act and the proposed changes to it affect anyone who holds dearly […]
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Women’s Basketball Emerges Champions at IFGs
story | Yip Jia Qi, Editor photo | Yale-NUS College Athletics In a first for Yale-NUS Basketball, the women’s team was crowned the Inter-Faculty Games (IFG) Champions, edging out the Faculty of Science by 34-40, amidst a roaring crowd of supporters. It was a close match, with Yale-NUS holding a lead of just 2 […]
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Unwelcome to our Campus
story | Yip Jia Qi, Opinion Editor photo | Yip Jia Qi Although Yale-NUS College as a student entity is diverse and by no means painted in a single brush stroke, I want to focus on something static that people may base their impressions upon: our architecture. There are many reasons for Yale-NUS being perceived […]
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Explaining Liberal Arts to a Singaporean
story | Yip Jia Qi, Opinion Editor photo | Serena Quay Explaining liberal arts to a Singaporean can sometimes be very frustrating. But as members of the first four classes of Yale-NUS, we cannot escape from it. Even as the first batch of seniors graduate this year, there is still a lack of understanding in the […]
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The Common Curriculum Needs to Stay
story | Yip Jia Qi, Opinion Editor photo | Rachel Juay I came to Yale-NUS College for the Common Curriculum, not despite it. The Common Curriculum is content curation, and given the vast body of information we have at our fingertips, content curation is everything. The Common Curriculum is a tour of almost every area […]
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Bursting Out of the Yale-NUS Bubble
story | Yip Jia Qi, Opinion Editor photo | Sean Cham, Rachel Juay, ZeroHedge, edited by Yip Jia Qi Just five weeks into my first year, I have come to realize a problem that plagues our school— the Yale-NUS College Bubble. The Bubble is an invisible wall around us. It imprisons us both physically […]
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